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Aline

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France, Canada · 2020
2h 6m
Director Valérie Lemercier
Starring Valérie Lemercier, Sylvain Marcel, Arnaud Préchac, Denis Lefrançois
Genre Music, Comedy, Drama

Stream Aline

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75

Paste Magazine by

Lemercier’s film is worth seeing at least once, regardless of your existing familiarity with (or even interest in) Dion. It never lampoons her, but rather taps into the heart of her appeal as a public figure…which, talent aside, just so happens to come back to her kookiness.

71

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz

Most impressively, Lemercier manages to make Dion/Aline’s not-terribly-dramatic hardships – she has trouble conceiving with her husband, she misses her family while on the road, she feels exhausted by her Las Vegas schedule – feel relatable and compelling. Part of that is Lemercier’s full-throttle commitment to the bit.

58

Original-Cin by Jim Slotek

Esthetically perched somewhere between a low-budget TV biopic and a soap opera - with occasional flourishes of bonkers-cheesiness worthy of cult status - Aline is the Celine Dion hagiography no one could have dreamed up except its director.

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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Lemercier’s weirdly grinning, gurning face superimposed on the child’s head creates an unnatural chill that the film fails to shrug off, even after Aline as an adult is supposed to be glammed up with her teeth fixed.

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